Literature as Cultural Ecology - (Environmental Cultures) by Hubert Zapf (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, <i>Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts </i>outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity's relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, <i>Literature as Cultural Ecology </i>is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Hubert Zapf delivers a take on literature that includes existing literary theory on ecology and ecocriticism and takes it to a new level of ecological thought.<br/>American Studies<br><br>Magisterial and sweeping, this book offers the first synthesis of major trends in ecocriticism from a European perspective. It integrates transdisciplinary approaches from German philosophy to contemporary Continental and Anglo-American theory, biosemiotics, and global policy studies. All these considerations are marshaled to support a compelling case for the transformative cultural agency and aesthetic force of literature as an ecological dimension of discourse that metonymically extends to all forms of life on earth. <i>Literature as Cultural Ecology</i> is necessary reading for anyone interested in environmental humanities.<br/>Louise Westling, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Oregon, USA<br><br>Zapf's is, in short, a bold and important contribution to the ecocritical debate, framed with admirable clarity.<br/>The British Society for Literature and Science<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Hubert Zapf </b>is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. His recent books include, as co-editor, A<i>merican Studies Today: New Research Agendas</i> (2014) and <i>English and American Studies: Theory and Practice</i> (2012).
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